QuoteReplyTopic: New King Crimson box set - The Road To Red Posted: August 02 2013 at 14:32

Just got an exciting email from Discipline Global Mobile (RF's record label). There's a 24 disc box set on the horizon called "The Road to Red". According to the description, "every soundboard quality recording known to exist [between April and July 1974] is presented with audio fully restored all released on CD for the first time." There will be 16 concerts spread across 20 discs including 5 complete shows. A new stereo mix of Red (from RF and Steven Wilson). Also, a DVD, a couple Blue Ray discs, and an album sized booklet filled with cool stuff.

If you're a fan of the Great Deceiver box set, this could be in your sweet spot!

Well, I made it exactly 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 38 seconds before I pulled the trigger and ordered this. The remixed Red and multi mixes of USA should be fun, but it's the 20 CD's made up of 16 shows I've never heard, 5 of them complete performances that sealed my fate. I feel like the cat that just ate the canary!

I too feel this is kind of excessive. I'm not really sure there's much more I can get from this era that is not included on the albums I already have, "The Great Deceiver" and "Collectible King Crimson Vol 1", having 6 CD's of live King Crimson from that era already. Perhaps if they chose the higlights and released is as a double album and a regular album price I would be interested in it.

I too feel this is kind of excessive. I'm not really sure there's much more I can get from this era that is not included on the albums I already have, "The Great Deceiver" and "Collectible King Crimson Vol 1", having 6 CD's of live King Crimson from that era already. Perhaps if they chose the higlights and released is as a double album and a regular album price I would be interested in it.

There actually is a scaled back 2CD version available for pre-order too.

I too feel this is kind of excessive. I'm not really sure there's much more I can get from this era that is not included on the albums I already have, "The Great Deceiver" and "Collectible King Crimson Vol 1", having 6 CD's of live King Crimson from that era already. Perhaps if they chose the higlights and released is as a double album and a regular album price I would be interested in it.

There actually is a scaled back 2CD version available for pre-order too.

I too feel this is kind of excessive. I'm not really sure there's much more I can get from this era that is not included on the albums I already have, "The Great Deceiver" and "Collectible King Crimson Vol 1", having 6 CD's of live King Crimson from that era already. Perhaps if they chose the higlights and released is as a double album and a regular album price I would be interested in it.

There actually is a scaled back 2CD version available for pre-order too.

Oh, so this set is actually the remastered version of the Red album. However, while thinking of a highlights version of the album, I was thinking live albums. From this version you showed, what I would be rather interested would be the live Starless song, but I would need to hear it. The thing is, my very favourite version of Starless is a live one, but it is one particular version, the one on "Collectible King Crimson Vol 1, CD 1, which is the one that has the most powerful and satisfying ending, as well as the better structured second half of the song... however, the sound quality could be just a tiny bit better. It's great, though, but if I listen to it next to the version on the second CD of the same album, I can tell the difference of sound quality. I wonder how the one here works.

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